Windows Server 2003 : VSP1CLEAN.exe
Windows Server 2008 : COMPCLN.exe
Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 : DISM.exe

I will explain the last one here.  Start you’re command prompt As Administrator.

That’s why I created this Powershell Script, just insert the name of you’re server in the .txt file and schedule the Powershell script as much as you [...]]]>

All administrators face this issue, a disk is running low on disk space but you don’t log on to the server that much so you don’t notify it.

That’s why I created this Powershell Script, just insert the name of you’re server in the .txt file and schedule the Powershell script as much as you would like it to run.

There are 2 options :
- Threshold mail (This wil only send an email when the specified Threshold is met
- Full mail (Every time the script runs it will mail a list of you’re servers and the disk capacity)

Function name : Get-FreeSpace

Parameters :
minimumThreshold : The value in % on which a disk will marked as almost full
HIGHPRIO :  The value in % when a send mail will be marked as High Priority
ServerList : Path to the server list txt file
Logging : Boolean value to log to screen
Maillog : Boolean value to log to mail
Mailto : Mandatory when Maillog is used (Recipient of report)
From : Mandatory when Maillog is used (Send of report)
Subject : Mandatory when Maillog is used (Mail subject)
Smtpserver : Mandatory when Maillog is used
CompleteLog : A full report of all server with diskspace will be generated and included
Bold = Mandatory

The script

Function Get-FreeSpace {
Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true, HelpMessage="Threshold Percentage")][int] $minimumThreshold,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true, HelpMessage="Mark Mail as High Priority Percentage")][int] $HIGHPRIO,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true, HelpMessage="Text File with Server List")][string] $ServerList,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$false, HelpMessage="Log to screen?")][boolean] $Logging,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$false, HelpMessage="Mail Log?")][boolean] $MailLog,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$false, HelpMessage="Mail recipient")][string] $Mailto,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$false, HelpMessage="Mail sender")][string] $From,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$false, HelpMessage="Mail Subject")][string] $Subject,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$false, HelpMessage="SMTP Server")][string] $Smtpserver,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$false, HelpMessage="List all CSV's")][boolean] $CompleteLog
)

##### [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, HelpMessage="Server to monitor")][array] $Servers, ##########
$datetime = Get-Date -Format “yyyyMMddHHmmss”;

# Get server list
$servers = Get-Content $ServerList
$HighPrioFlag = “normal”
$SendMail = $false

if ($MailLog)
  {
  if ($Mailto -eq “”) { $quit = $true }
  if ($From -eq “”) { $quit = $true }
  if ($Subject -eq “”) { $quit = $true }
  if ($Smtpserver -eq “”) { $quit = $true }

  if ($quit)
    {
    write-host -f red “When using MailLog ‘Mailto, From, Subject and Smtpserver’ are required”
  return
    }
}
 
# Add headers to log file
#Add-Content “$Env:USERPROFILE\server disks $datetime.txt” “server,deviceID,size,freespace,percentFree”;

$objs = @()
$FullTable = “<table><tr><td><b>Server</td><td><b>DeviceID</td><td><b>SizeGB</td><td><b>FreespaceGB</td><td><b>PercentFree</td></tr>”
$ThresholdTable = “<table><tr><td><b>Server</td><td><b>DeviceID</td><td><b>SizeGB</td><td><b>FreespaceGB</td><td><b>PercentFree</td></tr>”
 
foreach($server in $servers)
{
 # Get fixed drive info
 $disks = Get-WmiObject -ComputerName $server -Class Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter “DriveType = 3″;
 
 foreach($disk in $disks)
 {
  
  $obj = New-Object PSObject
  
  $deviceID = $disk.DeviceID;
  [float]$size = $disk.Size;
  [float]$freespace = $disk.FreeSpace;

  $obj | add-member -membertype noteproperty -name Server -value $server -force
  $obj | add-member -membertype noteproperty -name Size -value $size -force
  $obj | add-member -membertype noteproperty -name DeviceID -value $DeviceID -force

  $percentFree = [Math]::Round(($freespace / $size) * 100, 2);
  $obj | add-member -membertype noteproperty -name PercentFree -value $percentFree -force

  $sizeGB = [Math]::Round($size / 1073741824, 2);
  $obj | add-member -membertype noteproperty -name sizeGB -value $sizeGB -force

  $freeSpaceGB = [Math]::Round($freespace / 1073741824, 2);
  $obj | add-member -membertype noteproperty -name FreespaceGB -value $freeSpaceGB -force

  if ($obj.PercentFree -le $HIGHPRIO)
   {
   $HighPrioFlag = “high”
   }
  
  $objs+=$obj
  
  if ($PercentFree -le $minimumThreshold)
   {
   $SendMail = $true
   $color = “#FF0000″
   $ThresholdTable += “<tr><td>” + $obj.Server + “</td><td>” + $obj.DeviceID + “</td><td>” + $obj.SizeGB + “</td><td>” + $obj.FreespaceGB + “</td><td><b><font color=’$color’>” + $obj.PercentFree + “</font></b></td></tr>”
   }
  else
   {
   $color = “#00FF00″
   }
  $FullTable += “<tr><td>” + $obj.Server + “</td><td>” + $obj.DeviceID + “</td><td>” + $obj.SizeGB + “</td><td>” + $obj.FreespaceGB + “</td><td><b><font color=’$color’>” + $obj.PercentFree + “</font></b></td></tr>”
  

 }

}

$FullTable += “</table>”
$ThresholdTable += “</table>”
$objs = $objs | ft -auto Server,DeviceID,SizeGB,FreespaceGB,PercentFree

if ($Logging)
 {
 $objs
 }

if ($SendMail -OR $CompleteLog) {
if ($MailLog)
 {
 $body = “<b>Threshold Report:</b><br>” +$ThresholdTable
 if ($CompleteLog)
 {
 $body += “<p><b>Full Report:</b></p>” + $FullTable
 }
 #send-mailmessage -BodyAsHtml -body $FullTable -subject $Subject -to $mailto -from $From -smtpserver $Smtpserver -Priority $HighPrioFlag

 $subject = $subject + ” less than ” + $minimumThreshold + “%”
 send-mailmessage -BodyAsHtml -body $body -subject $Subject -to $mailto -from $From -smtpserver $Smtpserver -Priority $HighPrioFlag
 }
}

} #End Function Get-FreeSpace

 Download the script :

Save the script with a name (.ps1) you like on a location you like for example “d:\freespacefunction.ps1″, to use the function use :

Start you’re Powershell window
import-module “d:\freespacefunction.ps1″
Get-Freespace and all the parameters

Example of ServerList
 servers

Usage:
-  Get-Freespace  -minumumThreshold 8 -Highprio 3 -Serverlist “c:\servers.txt” -Logging $true
This will output a list to screen

-  Get-Freespace  -minumumThreshold 8 -Highprio 3 -Serverlist “c:\servers.txt” -Maillog $true -mailto recipient@domain.com -from sender@domain.com -subject “Free disk space report” -smtserver smtp.domain.com
This will send the report of only disks less than 8% freespace to recipient@domain.com, if no disks are less than 8% no mail will be send

-  Get-Freespace  -minumumThreshold 8 -Highprio 3 -Serverlist “c:\servers.txt” -Maillog $true -mailto recipient@domain.com -from sender@domain.com -subject “Free disk space report” -smtserver smtp.domain.com -CompleteLog $true 
This will send the report of all disks to recipient@domain.com every time the script is scheduled

How to schedule a Powershell script:
See my Post :How to schedule a Powershell script using Scheduled tasks in Windows Server 2008 R2

Open the task scheduler (Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Task Scheduler

Click op Create Basic Task

Powershell is a really powerfull tool but then you have to know how to schedule you’re scripts using the task scheduler if you would like to run script on a daily base for example.

Open the task scheduler (Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Task Scheduler

Click op Create Basic Task

Type a name and description for you’re task

Choose you’re trigger

And configure you’re trigger

Configure the action “Start a program”

The program to start is Powershell

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

with the arguments:

-command “& ‘D:\yourefilewithcommands.ps1′ “

Click the open the properties window checkbox to set extra options

Select the Run wheter user is logged on on not option and check the Run with highest privileges checkbox, don’t forget to select the correct user!

On the Triggers tab you can fine tune you’re schedule to repeat the schedule every hour, 10 minutes or whatever

Save the Scheduled task and now you can run it manually (or wait for it to run automatically if you like) to test it.

Now you have a scheduled powershell script

Hopefully Microsoft will create a SCOM Management pack, but until that time at least I know I won’t be suprised by VM’s pausing [...]]]>

There is no SCOM management pack to monitor the freespace on you’re CSV’s.
This can be an issue when you use Dynamically Expanding VHD’s which are common used as boot disks.

Hopefully Microsoft will create a SCOM Management pack, but until that time at least I know I won’t be suprised by VM’s pausing because my CSV ran out of space.

Therefor I used a Powershell script posted on the MSDN blog : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2010/06/19/10027366.aspx created by Simon Perriman

To use the scripts first run : “Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted” on the machine which will execute the script.

Prerequisites:
- The script must be run on a Cluster Node

Usage
Mandatory :
- Threshold (When the FreeSpace % hits under this value it will be logged)
- HIGHPRIO (When the FreeSpace % hits under this value the mail will be marked as High Priority)

Optional :
- [[-Logging] ] (Output to screen)
- [[-MailLog] ] (Output to mail)
- [[-Mailto] ] (Mandatory when output to mail is used)
- [[-From] ] (Mandatory when output to mail is used)
- [[-Subject] ] (Mandatory when output to mail is used)
- [[-Smtpserver] ] (Mandatory when output to mail is used)
- [[-CompleteLog] ] (Table of all CSV’s Size, Used, Free and Percentage free)
- [[-Exclusions] ] (If you would like to exclude some CSV’s seperate by comma, it’s only excluded from Threshold, on HIGHPRIO Threshold it will be included)

Examples :
Get-CSVFreeSpace –Threshold 10 –HIGHPRIO 4 -Logging $true
Get-CSVFreeSpace –Threshold 10 -HIGHPRIO 4 –CompleteLog $true –Logging $true
Get-CSVFreeSpace –Threshold 10 -HIGHPRIO 4 –MailLog $true –Mailto ‘someone@somewhere.com’ –from ‘someone@somewhere.com’ –subject ‘CSV Freespace’ –smtpserver ‘mail.somewhere.com’ -Exclusions “CSV1″,”CSV2″

The Script : csv.zip
If you would like to schedule the script on a Windows Server 2008 r2 Server you can use this template to import the schedule : CSV FreeSpace Result.zip

Simply extract all the files from csv.zip and CSV FreeSpace Result.zip in C:\Support and import the CSV FreeSpace Result.xml in the Task Scheduler. 
Edit the csvreport.ps1 script and change the parameters to you’re needs (mailto, from, smtp etc.)

Good luck with this script.

So the Microsoft team released SP1 for Windows 7, alle should go well installing it but unfortunately this is not the case on all computers. In our domain Windows 7 SP1 is approved bij WSUS and will be installed according to that.

On 10 machines this resulted in a Windows that won’t boot hanging [...]]]>

So the Microsoft team released SP1 for Windows 7, alle should go well installing it but unfortunately this is not the case on all computers. In our domain Windows 7 SP1 is approved bij WSUS and will be installed according to that.

On 10 machines this resulted in a Windows that won’t boot hanging on ERROR: C0000034 or Installing x from x 0000000000000000.cdf-ms

Luckely we were not the only one. Philip Elber created a blog post to solve this issue.

Solution :
01. Reboot your computer while it’s starting up.

02. When your computer starts up again, choose the option “Launch Startup Repair” 

–> PIC: http://notebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Recov-1.jpg

03. When the Startup repair starts, click cancel.

04. After you click cancel it will show a box. Click “Don’t Send” 

–> PIC: http://i52.tinypic.com/xgjriw.png

05. Click the link “View advanced options for recovery and support”

06. In the new window click Command Prompt at the bottom.

–> PIC: http://i51.tinypic.com/50imu8.png

07. In Command Prompt type this and press enter: %windir%\system32\notepad.exe

08. Notepad will open. In notepad go to File–>Open.

09. Change the type of files notepad views from .txt to All Files (see pic)

–> PIC: http://i51.tinypic.com/35nd74z.png

10. Now in Notepad, go to C:\Windows\winsxs\ (or whichever drive Windows is installed on)

11. In that folder, find pending.xml and make a copy of it

12. Now open the original pending.xml (it will load really slow because the file is huge)

13. Press CNTRL+F and search for the following exactly: 0000000000000000.cdf-ms

14. Delete the following text (yours will be a little different):

<Checkpoint/>

<DeleteFile path=”\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\_0000000000000000.cdf-ms”/>

<MoveFile source=”\SystemRoot\WinSxS\Temp\PendingRenames\e56db1db48d4cb0199440000b01de419._0000000000000000.cdf-ms” destination=”\SystemRoot\WinSxS\FileMaps\_0000000000000000.cdf-ms”/>

–> PIC: http://i54.tinypic.com/adzpzp.png

Your PC might not have all 3 sections of code (<Checkpoint>, <DeleteFile>, <MoveFile>). Just make sure you delete section “Checkpoint” and whatever other sections have “000000000000000.cdf-ms”. They will be right next to eachother.

15. Save the file, close notepad, close command prompt, restart your computer.

Once your computer starts up, do a normal startup (it may stall for 5-10 minutes at the “starting windows” screen, but leave it going) and the Service Pack will install some more stuff and restart a few times and then everything should be working! For some people, it reverts everything and cancels the service pack installation. For other people, the service pack installation completes. Either result is fine.

Source:
http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2011/03/windows-7-service-pack-1-error-c0000034.html

Everytime you login the keyboard setting will be changed into  you’re Local setting in my case Dutch, this is very innoying.

The reason for this is Microsoft put in a nice new Feature in 2008 called Auto [...]]]>

Is the Windows Server 2008 an R2 language bar driving you crazy when using RDP or ICA?

Everytime you login the keyboard setting will be changed into  you’re Local setting in my case Dutch, this is very innoying.

The reason for this is Microsoft put in a nice new Feature in 2008 called Auto detect Remote Keyboard layout and this will change you’re layout in the RDP session.

The solution is quit simple change these registry settings through a policy or login script:

Disable Auto Detect Keyboard Layout:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
“IgnoreRemoteKeyboardLayout”=dword:00000001

Hide Language Bar:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CTF\LangBar]
“ShowStatus”=dword:00000003

This can be used on Server, Terminal Server and Citrix Server.

Example add registry setting through Group Policy

Thanks to @JvPeer for the Intel

Sometimes it’s created in the installation folder of Exact Synergy Enterprise, sometimes it’s created in c:\users\public\Exact Synergy Enterprise and here’s the catch. When the db.config is created in the [...]]]>

When you first start Exact Synergy Enterprise on à Windows Server 2008 or R2 server it start the new database wizard and will create a db.config.

Sometimes it’s created in the installation folder of Exact Synergy Enterprise, sometimes it’s created in c:\users\public\Exact Synergy Enterprise and here’s the catch. When the db.config is created in the installation folder everything works just fine, you can browse Synergy create workflows etc.

But then you start configuring the Exact Synergy Enterprise background jobs and no matter where you run the command line, through the SQL agent, Command Prompt or Task Scheduler nothing seems to happen. Normally you check the process log in Synergy for an error, but there won’t be one. Check the Event Viewer on the server where you started the job, you will proberbly find an error of the exact.process.exe like “Error in process: . Error = Object reference not set to an instance of an object.”.

This is where the db.config in the c:\users\public\exact synergy enterprise is needed, just copy the db.config from you’re Synergy Installation folder and the job will work just fine.

Update!

This issue is resolved in the batch 245 releas of Exact Synergy Enterprise.

So you upload different documents, xlsx, docx, pptx, one and vsd’s when. Clicking them all of them open nice in you’re browser expect for you’re nicely drawn Visio document, I [...]]]>

So you start using Sharepoint 2010, installed the Microsoft Office Web Apps because it will come in usefull sometime for example when using you’re iPad.

So you upload different documents, xlsx, docx, pptx, one and vsd’s when. Clicking them all of them open nice in you’re browser expect for you’re nicely drawn Visio document, I was suprised to but there is a for this, it will never be possible to open the VSD, but if you save you as a VDW (Visio Web Drawing)

Now you can upload the drawing to sharepoint and edit it in the browser using Office Web Apps

Want to read more?
http://www.microsoftblog.co.in